About the Authored

• Novels – starting with my earliest
  • Hubris – a detective story involving a Herostratic terrorist. I was a teenager, whaddya want.
  • Castle-Builder – a man builds his dream house – then he has to live in it.
  • Warspite – story of a country that descends into genocide, and a small group of stranded people who fight to make it stop.
  • The Rise and Demise of The Blah Blah Vaginas – story about some Recent College Graduates who start a band.
  • Dirgey Thundercurrent – a magical murder mystery set in the Five Colleges of Massachusetts.
  • Public Key – a kid’s on the run from a crime he didn’t commit. he has to prove his innocence before he gets caught. all he has are his wits and his laptop. fortunately he’s pretty good with both.
  • Northern Tier – story of a bicycle courier in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world.
  • The Sweat of the Brow – story about a man who turns to crime to avoid dying of old age. UNFINISHED.
  • Fraidel Rose – story of a business consultant who just hates being bored. IN PROGRESS.
• Novellas
  • Angel of Hadley – story of the eponymous angel, it being America’s Rashomon and New England’s father tragedy.
  • Angel’s Tale – story of a hero, and of a man who watches heroes. Postcybernoir.
  • Arbiter of Elegance – story of a Manhattan girl who takes a country boy under her wing – and vice versa.
  • Baito – detective story set in the skyscrapers of Tokyo. aka Yanki.
  • Bell-Maker – story about a medieval German bell-maker who is kidnapped by Mongols and taken thousands of miles to the court of Kublai at Xanadu. Based on a true story.
  • Boom – story of a modern-day boomtown springing up around a substance more valuable than oil
  • Connection Lost – story about a grad student riding out the temporary collapse of civilization caused by the crash of the internet.
  • Curer – story about an HIV+ research scientist who tries, desperately, to find a cure for his disease. aka The Man Who Cured AIDS.
  • Damascus Blade – murder mystery involving Queen Victoria’s personal blacksmith. aka Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Damascus Blade.
  • Glow in the Vault – story of a Recent College Graduate who falls in with an accidental alchemist. A twist on the twists of HP Lovecraft.
  • Lord and Master – story about a rape in a Victorian stately home. Loosely based on the proclivities of Lord Kitchener.
  • Nine Months in Earthland – a little bit of science fiction. UNFINISHED.
  • Soar – story about an IT guy who get pulled into cutting-edge research and cutthroat corporate espionage
  • Stiletto – story about a Renaissance blacksmith who is contracted to make a murder weapon.
  • Trans-Siberia – story about a kid trying to cross Russia in winter. Includes an extended metaphor for preservationist monasticism! (I was in high school)
  • Travelogue – story about murder tourism. UNFINISHED.
  • Voices in the Heads – story about the world’s first psychotherapist for artificial intelligences.
  • White Smoke – story about a POW camp which happens to contain a chemist. digging tunnels is well and good but making bombs is better.
• Short Stories
• Plays, Poesie, &c
  • Boring – a stageplay (or camplay) about a revolution in Africa being managed by a guy in a suit in America.
  • loljobs – chronological blathering about my quest for unemployment. Includes the output of my #loljobs hashtag on Twitter. FOREVER IN PROGRESS.
  • Obituaries – deathographies for various people, mostly fictional characters.
  • Poems – yeah. those things.
  • Minuscule – little illustrations of little curiosities.
  • Reviews – opiniongasms
  • Second Semester Seniors – a stageplay I wrote when I was a second semester senior in high school. I think it’s on here somewhere.
  • The Series – A TV series about making a TV series.
  • Quotebooks – aphorisms and other utterances
• Uncategorized – Everything else.